Combined coat and vest



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COMBINED COAT AND VEST Filed Feb. 18, 1930 up 1171 81!. dwf

Patented Aug. 4, 1931 IHILIP H. .EINBINDEB,

F DENVER, COLORADO COMBINED COAT AN D VEST Application filed February18, 1830. Serial No. 429,289.

This invention relates to mens wearing apparel and has as an object theprovision of an improved combined coat and vest wherein the vest isarranged as'an integral or permanent part of the coat and adapted to beworn in embracing relation with the body of the wearer or folded backagainst the inner surface of the coat.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide an improvedconstruction of combined coat and vest wherein the vest portion of agarment is formed as an integral part of, or fixed permanently to, acoat facing.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved constructionof combined coat and vest wherein the vest portion of the garment may beworn as such or folded within the coat portion without detracting fromthe fit of the garment. v A further object of the invention is toprovide an improved construction of combined coat and vest adaptable togarments of varying styles.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved combinedcoat and vest susceptible of tailoring by means of conventional methods.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof elements 3.0 hereinafter described, pointed out in my claims andillustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is anelevation of a combined coat and vest embodying the features of myinvention arranged as it would appear when worn as a combined garment.Figure 2 is a view of the garment shown in Figure 1 illustrating themanner in which the vest portion is folded away when the garment is tobe worn as a coat only. Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2illustrating a modified construction of the garment. Figure 4 is a viewsimilar to Figure 2 illustrating the application of the invention todress or.

tuxedo coats. Figure 5 is a cross section through one side of thegarment shown in Figures 1 and 2 illustrating the vest portion inposition to be secured in embracing relation about the body of a wearer.Figure 6 is a cross section similar to Figure 5 showing the vest portionfolded back within the coat proper.

In the construction of the combined garment as shown, asack coat,designated generally by the numeral 10, is tailored in the usual andconventional manner with the exception of certain elements hereinafterdescribed and is providedwith the customary front flaps 11 extendingfrom skirt to lapel and adapted to be marginally overlapped and buttonedtogether as is standard prac tice. In the conventional coat, the frontflaps 11 are faced with material matching the coat and said facingmaterial is turned outwardly adjacent the coat collar to form thefinished lapels, the inner margin of said facing material being securedto edges of the coat lining 12. In the combined garment shown, the frontflaps 11 are each provided with a facing 13, relatively somewhat widerthan the facings of a conventional coat, the outer margins of saidfacings 13 being stitched to margins of the front flaps 11, as is usualpractice, the bottom edges of said facings being Secured to the bottomof the coat, top ends of said facings merging with the coat collar andthe inner edges of said facings being free of the coat proper. The innermargins of the facings 13 are not cut straight, but have each an offsetportion defining a flap 14 integral with said facing and having the formof onehalf of a vest front, said flaps 14 having lower margins spacedupwardly from the lower ends of the facings 13 and upper margins taperedupwardly to merge into said facing Where the latter merges with the coatcollar, so that, when the flaps 14 are smoothed back against the coat 10and within said coat, the upper margins of said flaps pass below andclear the armholes of said coat, as is clearly shown in Figures 2 and 3.The coat lining 12 has an outer edge stitched to the inner edge of thefacing 13 below the flap 14, as is usual, but said lining is formed withan integral flap 15 which corresponds with and is stitched along itsmargins to the edges of the flap 14-, so that, when said flaps 14 arebrought into embracing relation with the body of a wearer and buttonedor otherwise fastened together to form a vest, the lining 12 and liningflaps 15 are brought intoembracing relation about the body of saidwearer for a length equal to that'of'the vest portion and take whateverstrains and distortions of fit may result from changes of position ofthe wearer, leaving the coat to hang freely, there being no connectionbetween the lining 12 or lining flaps 15 and the facings 13 or flaps 14between thelower and upper edges of said flaps 14 where they merge withsaid facings. As shown in Figures and 6, buttons 16 are fixed on theinner sides and adjacent the inner margins of the flaps 14 and loops 17are secured to the 'coat' lining 12 in position to be engaged by saidbuttons 16 when said flaps 14 are folded withinthe coat and hold saidflaps smoothly within and against said coat, thus preventing unsightlybulkiness or wrinkling due to said fiaps when the coat is'worn withoutthe vest flaps fastenedtogether.

In the modification according to Figure 3, the construction is in allrespects the same as above described, save that the flaps 14 are shownas stitched to inner margins of the facings 13 instead of being cutintegrally therewith, this modification giving the same results asthough said flaps were integral with said facings and permitting the useof contrasting material for the vest flaps, when desired, as well aspermitting more economical cutting of material, in some instances. 7

In the modification shown in Figure 4, the

improvement is shown as applied to a dress or tuxedo coat, in which casethe vest flaps f 14 have a difierent shape than those for asackcoat, butare otherwise the same in principle and function. It is of courseobviousthat the modifications of Figures 3 and 4 ma be combined, when desired.s In practical use of the combined garment shown and described, theflaps 14 may be buttoned back within the coat 10 as shown in Figures 2,3, '4 and. 6 and the coat slipped on and worn'as though there were novest portion, said flaps 14being folded baclrunder the arms ofthe'wearer and within the coatwhere they cause no: discomfort orunsightly appearance VJ hen a vest is desired, the buttons116arereleased from their loops 1? and and a coat lining secured to margins ofsaid vest halves and the otherwise free margins of said facings,saidvest halves and the forward'margins of said lining being entirelyfree of the body portion of said coat.

. 2. A combined coat and vest comprising a coat formed with front flaps,relatively'wide facings on and secured along their forward margins tosaid front flaps, the rear margins of said facings being unsecured tosaid front flaps or coat, vest halves on and forming contin'uations ofrear margins ofsaid facings, means for positioning and holding said vesthalves within and against inner surfaces of said coat and a coat liningsecured to margins of said vest halves and the otherwise free margins ofsaid facings, said vest halves and the forwardmargins of said liningbeing entirely free of the body portion of said coat.

Signed at Denver, in the county of-Denver and State of Colorado, thissixteenth day of October, 1929.

PHILIP H. EINBINDER.

the margins of the flaps 14 brought forward and together about the bodyof the wearerto be overlapped and buttoned together with times withoutthe necessity for a separate 1 garment and at considerable saving'inmatethe appearance of the conventional vest, the frontufiaps 11 of thecoat being free to hang open,-as shown in Figure 1, or to be buttonedtogether according to the wishes of the wearer. vThus the appearanceandconvenience of a .vest may be had at any and all rial and expense.

Since of necessity certain changes and modifications in the specificform and relation of, the elements of my invention must be hadinadapting the principle ofthe in- I

